Behavioral confirmation in social interaction: From social perception to social reality |
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Authors: | Mark Snyder William B Swann |
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Institution: | University of Minnesota USA |
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Abstract: | A perceiver's actions, although based upon initially erroneous beliefs about a target individual may channel social interaction in ways that cause the behavior of the target to confirm the perceiver's beliefs. To chart this process of behavioral confirmation, we observed successive interactions between one target and two perceivers. In the first interaction, targets who interacted with perceivers who anticipated hostile partners displayed greater behavioral hostility than targets whose perceivers expected nonhostile partners. Only when targets regarded their actions as reflections of personal dispositions did these behavioral differences in hostility persevere into their subsequent interactions with naive perceivers who had no prior knowledge about them. Theoretical implications of the behavioral confirmation construct for social perception processes are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Mark Snyder Laboratory for Research in Social Relations Department of Psychology University of Minnesota 75 East River Road Minneapolis Minnesota 55455 |
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